Republicans Have Heard It All Before, But Do Not Give A Damn

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The February 27, 2019 congressional testimony of former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen for Trump was a sweeping and dramatic condemnation of the President.

After hours of questioning and testimony, the words in his opening statement were the most quoted and will be most remembered and include:

“I got to know [Trump] very well, working very closely with him for more than 10 years, as his Executive Vice President and Special Counsel and then personal attorney when he became President.”
…

“I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience.
I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is.
He is a racist.
He is a conman.
He is a cheat.”

Below is the link to the full transcript of the opening statement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/politics/cohen-documents-testimony.html

After the opening statement, all hell broke loose with the committee’s Republicans repeatedly attacking Michael Cohen’s credibility accusing him of being a liar, a convicted felon and a disbarred attorney.

More than two-thirds of Republican questioning at the Cohen hearing was attacking Cohen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/28/more-than-two-thirds-republican-questioning-cohen-hearing-was-attacking-cohen/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5fa97536cc77

Congressman Jim Jordan (Ohio), the Ranking Republican Member of the House Oversight Committee, took the lead in attacking Cohen.

Jordan has been serving in the House since 2007 and he is a founding member of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus that is a staunch defender of all things Trump, including believing and then promoting all of Trump’s lies to the public, especially the declaration of a national emergency to build the wall on the boarder with Mexico.

Repeatedly the Republicans on the committee asked why they should believe what he was testifying to under oath seeing as he was convicted of lying to congress before.

The Republicans on the committee acted shocked and outrage as if they had never heard such accusation before, even though Cohen presented documented proof of what he said.

Absolutely no one should be surprised that no Republican on the committee wanted to believe what Cohen testified to under oath when the Republican Party did not believe what the 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney had to say just 3 years ago about Trump.

On March 3, 2016, Mitt Romney in a televised speech denouncing Trump had this to say:

“Here’s what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. … His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat. … dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark … [his] bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics.”

For more see the below link:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/mitt-romney-presidential-race-speech/index.html

United Senator Mitt Romney needs to be reminded what he said about Trump and we all need to hope he will not hesitate to vote to convict Donald Trump of Obstruction of Justice charged in articles of impeachment to remove Trump from office.

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Pete Dinelli was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is of Italian and Hispanic descent. He is a 1970 graduate of Del Norte High School, a 1974 graduate of Eastern New Mexico University with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and a 1977 graduate of St. Mary's School of Law, San Antonio, Texas. Pete has a 40 year history of community involvement and service as an elected and appointed official and as a practicing attorney in Albuquerque. Pete and his wife Betty Case Dinelli have been married since 1984 and they have two adult sons, Mark, who is an attorney and George, who is an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Pete has been a licensed New Mexico attorney since 1978. Pete has over 27 years of municipal and state government service. Pete’s service to Albuquerque has been extensive. He has been an elected Albuquerque City Councilor, serving as Vice President. He has served as a Worker’s Compensation Judge with Statewide jurisdiction. Pete has been a prosecutor for 15 years and has served as a Bernalillo County Chief Deputy District Attorney, as an Assistant Attorney General and Assistant District Attorney and as a Deputy City Attorney. For eight years, Pete was employed with the City of Albuquerque both as a Deputy City Attorney and Chief Public Safety Officer overseeing the city departments of police, fire, 911 emergency call center and the emergency operations center. While with the City of Albuquerque Legal Department, Pete served as Director of the Safe City Strike Force and Interim Director of the 911 Emergency Operations Center. Pete’s community involvement includes being a past President of the Albuquerque Kiwanis Club, past President of the Our Lady of Fatima School Board, and Board of Directors of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation.